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Singolare
''Singolare'' is an album by Italian singer Mina, originally distributed back to back with album '' Plurale''. Track listing Credits *Mina – vocals * Gianni Ferrio – arranger/conductor in "Devo dirti addio (''Pra dizer adeus'')" and "Triste" *Tony Mimms – arranger/conductor in "Ancora dolcemente" *Pino Presti Giuseppe Prestipino Giarritta (born 23 August 1943), professionally known by his pseudonym Pino Presti, is an Italian bassist, arranger, composer, conductor and record producer from Milan. He is a 5th-dan black belt in Shotokan Karate. Pre ... – arranger/conductor in "Sognando", "L'ultima volta", "Terre lontane", "Io camminerò" and "Nuda" *Massimo Salerno – arranger/conductor in "Cablo" *Roberto Soffici and Simon Luca – arranger/conductor in "Colpa mia" *Nuccio Rinaldis – sound engineer Charts References External links * * Mina (Italian singer) albums 1976 albums Albums conducted by Pino Presti Albums arranged by Pino Presti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plurale
''Plurale'' is an album by Italian singer Mina, distributed back to back with album ''Singolare''. Track listing # ''Intro'' - 2:26 - (Recording dialogues during rehearsals) # ''Moonlight Serenade'' - 4:01 - ( Glenn Miller-Mitchell Parish) # ''C'è un uomo in mezzo al mare'' - 2:29 - (Nino Giuseppe Rastelli-Dino Olivieri) # '' My Love'' - 4:16 - (Paul McCartney- Linda McCartney) # ''Il testamento del capitano'' - 3:47 - (Tradizionale-Gianni Ferrio) # ''El porompompero'' - 3:16 - (José Antonio Ochaíta-Xandro Valerio-Juan Solano Pedrero) # '' Michelle'' - 5:36 - (John Lennon-Paul McCartney) # ''Pennsylvania 6-5000'' - 2:57 - (Carl Sigman-Jerry Gray) # ''Scettico Blues'' - 3:30 - (Dino Rulli-T. De Filippis) # '' Mood Indigo'' - 3:14 - ( Duke Ellington- Barney Bigard- Irving Mills) # ''Good Evening Friends'' - 0:08 - (Gianni Ferrio) Live Performance El porompompero : Live Version - Mina Live '78 Michelle: Italian version Live TV '67, album Signori... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pino Presti
Giuseppe Prestipino Giarritta (born 23 August 1943), professionally known by his pseudonym Pino Presti, is an Italian bassist, arranger, composer, conductor and record producer from Milan. He is a 5th-dan black belt in Shotokan Karate. Presti was very young when he first entered the music business. He started as a bass guitar player, than gradually began as an arranger, composer, orchestra conductor, and producer. Among his collaborations in different genres of music like jazz, pop, funk, soul, and Latin music are Mina (the most famous Italian pop singer), Gerry Mulligan, Ástor Piazzolla (with whom he has performed on 24 recordings as a sideman, including the well known composition ''Libertango''), Quincy Jones, Wilson Pickett, Shirley Bassey, Franco Cerri, Maynard Ferguson, Stéphane Grappelli, Severino Gazzelloni, Aldemaro Romero, and Tullio De Piscopo among others. Early life Son of an accomplished violinist, Arturo Prestipino Giarritta,Autori Vari (a cura di Gino C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina (Italian Singer)
Mina Anna Maria Mazzini (born 25 March 1940) or Mina Anna Quaini (for the Swiss civil registry), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian-Swiss singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an emancipated woman. In performance, Mina combined several modern styles with traditional Italian melodies and swing music, which made her the most versatile pop singer in Italian music. Mina dominated the country's charts for 15 years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity. She has scored 79 albums and 71 singles on the Italian charts. Mina's TV appearances in 1959 were the first for a female rock and roll singer in Italy. Her loud syncopated singing earned her the nickname "Queen of Screamers". The public also labeled her the "Tigress of Cremona" for her wild gestures and body shakes. When sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minacantalucio
''Minacantalucio'' is an album by Italian singer Mina, originally distributed back to back with album '' La Mina''. The title translates as ''Mina Sings Lucio'', referring to the album's consisting entirely of songs composed by Lucio Battisti (and originally recorded by him except for "L'aquila", originally performed by Bruno Lauzi). The entire album was arranged by Gabriel Yared Gabriel Yared (Arabic: غبريال يارد; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films ''Betty Blue'' and ''Camille Claud ... Oscar Prize. , Artistic Director Vittorio Buffoli. , Artistic Coordination Osvaldo Miccichè. , Sound Engineer Nuccio Rinaldis Track listing 1975 albums Mina (Italian singer) albums Italian-language albums {{1970s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giancarlo Bigazzi
Giancarlo Bigazzi (5 September 1940 – 19 January 2012) was an Italian music producer and composer. He was a former member of comedy music group Squallor. Life and career Born in Florence, he was one of the best known Italian songwriters and lyricists of the 1970s and 1980s. He wrote some of the most successful Italian pop records, many of which became international hits, such as "Gloria", "Self Control", "No Me Ames", " Tu", "Take the Heat off Me", "Mama". He was also a film score composer; among his soundtracks are '' Mery per sempre'', ''Ragazzi fuori'' and the Oscar-winner ''Mediterraneo''. Bigazzi collaborated for 2 years with singer Mia Martini, writing also her Eurovision track "Rapsodia". References External links * Giancarlo Bigazziat Discogs Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Albums
Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. * January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction (the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart. * January 18 ** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. ** The Scottish Labour Party (1976), Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party. ** Super Bowl X in American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami. * January 21 – First commercial Concorde flight, from London to Bahrain. * January 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina (Italian Singer) Albums
Mina may refer to: Places Iran * Minaq, East Azerbaijan * Mina, Fars * Mineh, Lorestan Province * Mina, Razavi Khorasan * Mehneh, Razavi Khorasan Province United States * Mina, California * Mina, Nevada * Mina, New York * Mina, Ohio * Mina, South Dakota Ports * Al-Mina, a modern name given to an ancient coast settlement in Syria * El Mina, Lebanon, the original site of the harbor of the Phoenician city of Tripoli Elsewhere * Elmina, Ghana, a modern town which grew around the first European settlement in sub-Saharan Africa * Mina 3, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina * Mina, Burkina Faso, village in Balé Province, Burkina Faso * Mina, Iloilo, a municipality in Iloilo, Philippines * Mina, Nuevo León, a municipality in Nuevo León, Mexico * Mina, Saudi Arabia * Mina River (Indonesia) * Abu Dhabi Vegetable Market or Al Mina Fruit & Vegetable Market, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Languages * Hina language, a language of Cameroon * Gen language or Mina, the language of the Mina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musica E Dischi
''Musica e dischi'' was the oldest and long-running music industry publication in Italy. '' Billboard'' defined the publication as the "Italian record bible The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus ...". History It was founded in October 1945 in Milan, Italy, on the initiative of the journalist and musicologist Aldo Mario De Luigi, a former record executive at La Voce Del Padrone-Columbia-Marconiphone (VCM, now EMI Italy). Originally, the magazine was published under the name ''Musica'' (''Dischi'' was added on the second edition) on a monthly basis. In the 1960s, ''Musica e dischi'' started to issue a list of best-seller music recordings nationally. After the death of Aldo Mario in 1968, his son Mario De Luigi, already reviewer and editor of the magazine since 1958, became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corrado Castellari
Corrado Castellari (23 September 1945 - 23 November 2013) was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Bologna, in the 1960s Castellari moved to Milan to pursue his musical career. His first high-profile work was the music for Fabrizio De André's "Il testamento di Tito", while his first success was Michele's 1971 hit "Susan dei Marinai". Castellari is mainly known for his professional association with Iva Zanicchi, for whom he composed some major hits including "Coraggio e paura". He also composed songs for Adriano Celentano, Mina, Ornella Vanoni, Raffaella Carrà, Milva, Albano Carrisi, Bruno Lauzi, Orietta Berti, Fred Bongusto, Rosanna Fratello, Nino Manfredi, and Stefania Rotolo, for whom he co-wrote with his usual collaborator Cristiano Malgioglio her signature song " Cocktail d'amore". He participated to the Zecchino d'Oro fourteen times between 1973 and 2009, winning the competition two times. He also composed several opening songs for car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Ferrio
Gianni Ferrio (16 November 1924 – 21 October 2013) was an Italian composer, conductor and music arranger. Life and career Born in Vicenza, Ferrio studied at the conservatories of Vicenza and Venice. Starting in the late 1950s, he was active as a composer of film scores. He composed some 120 soundtracks, mostly for Spaghetti Westerns and commedie sexy all'italiana films. His piece "One Silver Dollar", the main theme to Giorgio Ferroni's ''Blood for a Silver Dollar'' (1965), was later included in the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's ''Inglourious Basterds''. Ferrio is also well known for his work in pop music, particularly for his collaboration with Mina, for whom he composed hit songs such as "Parole parole" and wrote arrangements and orchestrations for many songs and albums. The last collaboration with Mina was on her 2012 album ''12 (American Song Book)'', for which Ferrio provided the string arrangements. Ferrio served as conductor for the Sanremo Music Festival in 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mino Reitano
Beniamino "Mino" Reitano (December 7, 1944 – January 27, 2009) was an Italian singer, songwriter and actor. Reitano was born in Fiumara, a small village in Calabria. His father, an employee at the local railway station, was very passionate about music, and encouraged all his sons to learn to play an instrument. After a spell in the local brass band, Reitano moved to Reggio Calabria, where he studied at the Francesco Cilea Conservatory for eight years, learning piano, trumpet, and violin. In the late 1950s, Reitano moved with his brothers to Hamburg, where they formed a rock'n'roll band, Benjamin & His Brothers. They often played at the Star-Club, sharing the bill with Rory Storm, Tony Sheridan and The Beatles. After a couple of years, Reitano returned to Italy, where he recorded his first single, ''Twist Time''. After a successful performance at the Castrocaro Music Festival, he was offered a contract with the Italian label Dischi Ricordi, and in 1967 he participated for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Tozzi
Umberto Antonio Tozzi (; born 4 March 1952) is an Italian pop and rock singer and composer. Over the course of his career, he has sold over 70 million records in different languages internationally, and his biggest international hits are: "Stella Stai", "Gloria", " Tu" and "Ti Amo". Biography Tozzi was born on 4 March 1952 in Turin, Italy. In 1968, at the age of 16, Umberto Tozzi joined 'Off Sound', one of the many groups that performed in small venues around Turin. In Milan, he met Adriano Pappalardo, with whom he formed a 13-piece band and began a large-scale Italian tour. In 1974 Tozzi had his first success as a songwriter, with the song "Un Corpo, un'anima" ("One Body, One Soul"), co-written with Damiano Dattoli and performed by Wess and Dori Ghezzi. It appeared on '' Canzonissima'', an Italian music programme running from 1956 to 1974. In 1976, he released his first album, ''Donna Amante Mia'' ("Woman, My Lover"), which contained the single "Io Camminerò" ("I Will Walk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
